republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-490.md

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Bill	Law enforcement agency policies: arrests: positional asphyxia.	Existing law authorizes a peace officer to make an arrest pursuant to a warrant or based upon probable cause, as specified. Under existing law, an arrest is made by the actual restraint of the person or by submission to the custody of the arresting officer. Existing law authorizes a peace officer to use reasonable force to effect the arrest, to prevent escape, or to overcome resistance.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 490	California AB 490 (20212022)	bill	Law enforcement agency policies: arrests: positional asphyxia.	enacted	Gipson	6	25	8	2021-02-08	2021-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/f012d5f3-bdf9-4d05-bc8f-36bee7e67da8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB490	dd00ffc2d0dceaecf8774a328f5f4c6aff8303da26c7e52bea977f3374531fef	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 490 (20212022) — Law enforcement agency policies: arrests: positional asphyxia.

Existing law authorizes a peace officer to make an arrest pursuant to a warrant or based upon probable cause, as specified. Under existing law, an arrest is made by the actual restraint of the person or by submission to the custody of the arresting officer. Existing law authorizes a peace officer to use reasonable force to effect the arrest, to prevent escape, or to overcome resistance.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/08/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/26/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/30/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB490 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/13/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 490 Gipson Assembly Third Reading — 55–15 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB490 Gipson et al. By Durazo — 28–8 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• AB 490 Gipson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 55–18 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gipson — primary (person)
• Bonta — author (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Lee — coauthor (person)
• Levine — coauthor (person)
• Lorena Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
• Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)
• Quirk — coauthor (person)
• Santiago — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2021-02-08 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-09 From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
• 2021-03-18 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-03-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-22 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-04-14 Coauthors revised.
• 2021-04-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-28 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 Coauthors revised.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 55. Noes 15. Page 1828.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-16 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-07-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 26). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-08-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 2485.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 55. Noes 18. Page 2991.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 407, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f012d5f3-bdf9-4d05-bc8f-36bee7e67da8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).